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When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Faith is the food of the Soul – Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith
Never lose faith in humanity.
Truth and love always triumph.
Be aware of the seven social sins – “Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.”
Let go of worry – There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Be the change you want to see in the world – “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Where there is love there will always be peace.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
Each day you are preparing for your future – The future depends on what you do today.
Live each day as if it were your last – Learn as if you were to live forever.
Contrary to what you were lead to believe, forgiveness is not a weakness but a strength – The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses.
Nobody can hurt you without your permission.
Power based on love is a thousand times more effective than the one derived from fear – Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
Never betray your true self.
As you think so shall you be – Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
We treat the world as we treat ourselves.
Your Health is your real wealth – It is health that is the real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
1. Half the international airports, which are located in
South India, are within 500 kilometers of each other.
2. The Trichy Airport has the shortest runway among the
International Airports, spreading 816 feet.
3. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai was
initially named The Santa Cruz Airport by the British before it was nationalized
post-Independence.
4. Rajiv Gandhi was a professional pilot associated with
the Indian Airlines.
5. In India, people are always in a hurry to get off the
plane as soon as it lands, often forming queues within the plane and sometimes
causing a stampede. This same crowd is somehow disciplined outside of India.
6. Jet Airways, later renamed as Jet Lite, was initially
started as an air taxi in 1992.
7. The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is
the busiest airport in India.
8. The Subhash Chandra Bose airport in Kolkata was
initially called ‘Dum Dum Airport’, until it was renamed after India’s freedom
fighter
9. Kerala has 3 of the 14 International Airports in
India.
10. Domestic flights don’t serve liquor on domestic
flights, unless it’s leaving the country soon after its local stop.
11. Air India was originally Tata Airlines in 1932, after
which a majority of it was bought over by the Government in World War 2.
12. If a plane is delayed in India, it’s quicker to catch
the next one than wait on the same flight.
13. Domestic flights sometimes land on the
international terminus.
The Jakhoo Temple Shrine, believers say, holds the footprints of Lord Hanuman.
Shimla had its first newspaper – Simla Akhbaar in 1848.
The first shop opened in Shimla was a butchery run by Messer Barret & Co.
Auckland House School is the only Girl School in India to introduce Scuba Diving.
BCS Shimla is one of the Oldest Boarding Schools in Asia.
The First Road of Shimla was constructed in 1828.
The Gurkha Gate was actually built to honor the Gurkha’s for their support to the British.
Shimla Falls in Seismic Zone IV.
The northern slope of Ridge is sinking.
The Shimla Convention is a Century old. Tibetans are still in Exile.
From the North Side of Ridge the rainwater drains into Sutlej River and is carried into the Arabian Sea, South-side drains into the Yamuna and flows to the Bay of Bengal.
For Indian forces deployed in Siachen, it is less of a challenge to watch out for the frail Pakistani forces but to just stay atop this 76 kilometers long glacier at 5,400 meters altitude (nearly twice the altitude of Ladakh and Kargil) in itself means you have to defy all of your physical, mental and spiritual limits.
Know About India’s Soldiers Defending Siachen
1. In Siachen, you are at the risk of getting a deadly frostbite if your bare skin touches steel (gun trigger, for example) for just over fifteen seconds.
2. Mountain climbers climb when the weather is at its best; soldiers serve in these treacherous terrains all year round.
3. The human body just cannot acclimatize over 5,400 meters
4. Speech blurring is as obvious as toothpaste freezing in the tube
5. Snowstorms in Siachen can last 3 weeks.
6. Yearly snowfall in Siachen can be well over 3 dozen feet
7. New Pay commission may consider the unique challenges faced by the army jawans who man the territory all through the year.
8. Soldiers find ways to entertain themselves when they can.
9. Fresh food – that’s rare. Very rare. At Siachen, an orange or an apple can freeze to the hardness of a cricket ball in no time.
10. Army pilots literally push their helicopters well beyond their optimal performance, every day!
11. In the last 30 years, 846 soldiers have sacrificed their lives at Siachen.
12. A War Memorial at the Bank of Nubra River has the names of Indian soldiers who laid their lives in Siachen.
13. Local saying: “The land is so barren and the passes so high that only the best of friends and fiercest of enemies come by.’
14. In Siachen, the Indian Army spends as much as 80% of its time preparing soldiers of deployment.
15. “We do the difficult as a routine. The impossible may take a little longer”
16. When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave our today.
